Daily Whine & Shine - December 26, 2007

Good Morning!

I am completely wiped out and still have to go to work. Never thought I'd be this tired "the day after" yet I am. Wish I had off like everyone else here. But I'm self employed so that's part of it.

Sun is shining, so that helps. Haven't seen it in awhile.

Hope you're doing well and had a nice Christmas!

I'm upset that our heater went out Christmas Eve night

and now it is costing $375.00 to fix! So that has taken the wind out of my sails a bit

I am sitting here listening to my Brasilian DIL swear in Portuguese at her Bank in Brasil! She's usually quiet natured....errrrr, cept they cut her debit card off yesterday and issued her a new card which is currently sitting at the bank waiting for her to pickup. YIKES!

I am frustrated with our electric company. We lost power for 3 hrs on Chrismas Eve and for an hour on Christmas Day! I'm sure it's not the workers fault, but they said the outage was due to equipment failure. Go figure!!!

On a more joyous note, we still had a wonderful Chrismas and I will be sharing photos soon!

Oh, and it's been snowing all morning, hopefully it won't make the power equipment malfunction again!

We're having a beautiful day here in Cincinnati. The sun is shining and it isn't that cold and there's no wind. (On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the winds were fierce.) My son wanted to check Krogers for his favorite Christmas candy - a peppermint nougat only out at Christmas - and, boy, was the parking lot full. Even more than right before Thanksgiving and Christmas. We also hit the dollar store and passed some other stores along the way. Yes indeedy, people are out shopping. Perhaps they're spending some of those gift cards that the news media said were the gift of choice this year. Supposedly 67% of people gave some gift cards this year.

I'm "on call" if anything happens to my mom this week at the assisted living center in Michigan. Both of my sisters are out of town. Hopefully, they have her meds all figured out and she's stablized. For a while, she was waking in the middle of the night and trying to get out in the parking lot to let my brother in. She was dreaming or seeing things, of course. My brother is in Pittsburgh, PA. Although none of us have heard from him in a while. (He's homeless by choice.)

Doing that right now, Sue.

Will do from me as well sue. Marilyn I am glad thw holiday was some what good for you. As I wished we got a bit of sluggy snow but snow none the less. Of course when I bet with mom we would get a bit and she said we would not and we did she was calling me a few so not nice names because the cold makes her fibro act up as it does yours. Sorry I have not been here in a while to check in on everyone, but ended up in the hospital yet again that was a disaster that I will talk about some other time. But the point I wanted to make here is that they treated me so badly this time I ended up A.M.A.ing myself out of the hospital and took controll of me for a change and stood up for myself and it was a good thing I did because when I gotr back I went to the other reguler doctors and they told me I made a wise call as to not having my port took out as they wanted me to do in Atlanta after playing wishy washy with me for 12 days. they did say they wanted to wait and see in a month if it really needed fixed and let me regain some of my energy back. They said as weak as I am right now they did not want to risk surgery right now is the bottom line. I may still have to go back and have something done about it but for now I am in the clear and even mom agreed with my choice this time and is glad I did as I did for once. I do hope your Christmas went great because mine did and I even got my kids for Christmas as I wanted except fot my ex sister-in-laws sons. She would not let me see them but she did let them call so that is something at least.

I had a very quiet Christmas day as it was just hubby, me and our 3 little critters. We went to my sons house the night before, my daughter and her family came and we had a nice dinner. I ended up having to have hubby bring me home fairly early as my neck was bothering me so badly, I couldn't really enjoy things. I have herniated discs in my neck and buldging discs in my lower back and many things can start me hurting. Hubby and I drove over to visit a friend of ours that is in a nursinghome. He has MS and can not take care of himself, he is in his early or mid 50's. I just thank GOD for all that HE has done for us. GOD BLESS YOU ALL

We had a wonderful Chirstmas gathering at my mother in laws house. It was a sparkling mix of family and friends. The food was good and the conversation spatacular. All in all, it was a reflection of a good year for me.

I'm back at my apartment, after a week of staying with relatives over the holidays. I had a really wonderful Christmas, and got to see a lot of friends and family. I got a new tattoo, which I love.

On the rant side, I'm back at work, feeling a little lost after a week off, and wishing it was time to go home already (only about 30 more minutes, though).

Angela, I'm sorry you were in the hospital again, but glad that you stood up for yourself.

Good to see you back, Dawn.

It sounds like most of us have at least a little something about which to be thankful and that we admit to having some blessings. :-)

Thanks Marilyn and you were talking about blessings for me my kids as I call my sister and brothers kids are my blessing. They keep me going .